Final Day of the Poetic Proposal Blog Tour.

What can I say about this man. I absolutely love his sense of humour and writing style. He has been ever present in his support, both personally, and with regard to my poetry.

John’s blog is known as ‘Fiction Favorites’ (nearly gave it a UK spelling there, sorry John. I think we’re good now). In addition to posts about his novel writing his blog includes regular weekly features such as ‘Wednesday Story day – Hump Day’, Friday’s ‘TGIF Johnku’, and ‘Stream of Consciousness Saturday’. He is the author of a fiction thriller MyGRL. Check it out, along with news of his other ‘Published Work’.

John has been the ‘Spotlight Author’ of the week this last week for the #RaveReviewsBookClub (#RRBC), during which his many interesting posts, including ‘Question and Answers’ and ‘Interviews’ have appeared all over the blogosphere. See his introductory post here.

Yes. They do make things difficult. Personally I think people should be able to live anywhere if they are not going to be a burden on the state, break the law, or treat its citizens, rules, traditions, norms, religions, etc. with disrespect.

I agree. Though I think part of the challenge there is checking everyone thoroughly and in a good amount of time. This is bureaucracy and such a creature is deathly allergic to simplicity and common sense.

Absolutely. It would be nice if some of the checking could take place after residency. Initial residency is conditional anyway, generally, so just give that earlier and if people transgress, boot them.

It certainly seems that way. I know that UK residents cannot get in on the diversity visa. They are one of the 10 or so countries that can’t because ‘too many’ have already been let in. I often think that it is really just a perception thing and the rules aren’t really different, but it all seems so subjective and convoluted it is impossible to tell.

Thank you Julian for the really nice post here. I’m with Charles on the header. You got the author and poet representation down vey well. We need to concentrate on a representation for the lewd. Maybe a photo of Charle Sheen.

It is a pleasure, John. Thank you for your help with the blog tour. That is a really good point. I hadn’t thought of the lewd side of things. Charlie Sheen would be good, and perhaps Billy Bob Thornton – especially at this time of year with the lewd film ‘Bad Santa’.